On Thursday 24 January 2008 20:56 John Nagle wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have an Unicode text file with 1.6 billon lines (~2GB) that I'd like >> to sort based on first two characters. > > Given those numbers, the average number of characters per line is > less than 2. Please check.
which would be true if 1.599.999.999 had 2 chars and the rest of the lines just one :) (but yes that would be an interesting question how to sort a 1 character line based on the first 2 of that line) martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours You are not free to read this message, by doing so, you have violated my licence and are required to urinate publicly. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
